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Subject(s)

• American poetry—Women authors [Browse]

Series

• Pitt poetry series. [More in this series]
• Pitt Poetry Series

Summary note

Winner of the 2004 Cave Canem Poetry PrizeThe poems in Eye of Water are derived from the narrator's experiences in what she calls her "waking." She traces inspiration to "the beginning of myth, to Eve in the Garden of Eden" and states: "We could spend our lives unraveling the mistake and discover that life was one great big 'chore, ' and inescapable. And the path is full of missteps and accidents because we cannot (or prefer not to) remember all that got us to that moment. My body seems to be a symptom of the past, so no matter who touches me, all the ghosts are waiting there. The 'chore' becomes how to survive despite the flaws of our humanness that makes us brutal at times."

Notes

"Winner of the 2004 Cave Canem Poetry Prize"--Cover.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

English

Contents

• Intro
• Contents
• Chore
• I
• Oak Leaf
• The Handless Maiden
• Vultures
• A Bird in Hand
• Black Mountain Walk, Collecting Arrowheads
• Spasm
• Off-Season
• Making the Offer
• Last Tenant
• Translating the Oak
• Her Hemisphere
• A Body from the Wizard
• Harvest
• Field Song
• The Fault of Memory
• Waking from a Dream of Childhood
• II
• Woman at a Grave
• In My Hand
• Reuptation of Touch
• Dream in Montana
• Magdalene Speaks
• Pomegranates
• Accident of Loving
• Falling Asleep with a Pen in My Hand
• Lake Shore Deer
• Letter and a Crow
• Tree House
• Aubade
• Love Seen
• Marlboros at Dusk
• III
• Dress
• A Woman's Jewelry
• Eye of Water
• Unfinished Gaze
• Elegy for a Suicide
• Night Form
• Oracle
• Miscarriage in October with Ladybugs
• Blooms
• August Bat
• Hotel Reverie
• Water Answering Sky and Mountains
• Calling Home
• Thirst
• Possible Endings
• Erasure
• The Divined Shore
• Acknowledgments.

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ISBN

• 9780822979913
• 0822979918

OCLC

• 648637596
• 1228622349

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